The Fruit of Hate: Secret Service investigating Facebook poll on Obama - Page 5 - New England Patriots Forums

***PressCoverage*** · 09-29-2009, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot_in_NY

Fine, consider me lazy or lying them. But I'm not about to do a search on google with the terms "kill" "threats" "president" anywhere on them.

You know what? You have a point.

Well played, sir.

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 09-29-2009, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by PressCoverage

You know what? You have a point.

Well, maybe, but not much of one.

All you have to do is google "number of death threats against a president" and you come up with the following generalized information.

President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 percent from the roughly 3,000 per year under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

Death threats against President up 400 percent on The Louisiana Weekly

So the answer to the burning question "Did George Bush get death threats?" is this: Yep, he did - but nowhere even near the amount of death threats received by Barak Obama.

Right wing loonies apparently out-number left wing loonies by 400 to 1.

Sounds about right to me.

***PressCoverage*** · 09-29-2009, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Well, maybe, but not much of one.

All you have to do is google "number of death threats against a president" and you come up with the following generalized information.

President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 percent from the roughly 3,000 per year under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

Death threats against President up 400 percent on The Louisiana Weekly

So the answer to the burning question "Did George Bush get death threats?" is this: Yep, he did - but nowhere even near the amount of death threats received by Barak Obama.

Right wing loonies apparently out-number left wing loonies by 400 to 1.

Sounds about right to me.

Agreed fully.

I was only acknowledging his unwillingness to Google those words. Google is quite evil.

Patriot_in_NY · 09-29-2009, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Well, maybe, but not much of one.

All you have to do is google "number of death threats against a president" and you come up with the following generalized information.

President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.

Since Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 percent from the roughly 3,000 per year under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President’s Secret Service.

Death threats against President up 400 percent on The Louisiana Weekly

So the answer to the burning question "Did George Bush get death threats?" is this: Yep, he did - but nowhere even near the amount of death threats received by Barak Obama.

Right wing loonies apparently out-number left wing loonies by 400 to 1.

Sounds about right to me.

Do you even follow these threads, or do you just spray venom and hope it hits something?

My point in my FIRST POST on the topic....... the sole point even, was not who gets more, or which ones were more "real" or not.

It was simply that this crap happened to Bush too. The more polarized this country gets the worse examples you see. Probably happened to Clinton too. I feel even worse for the next guy (or woman). I think it's more a reflection of how deep we are in the toilet then anything else.

Don't ask so surprised, like Obama is the only one that's been the target of hate. It only makes you look dumber. Expect more of it as this country goes further and further into the dump of political turmoil.

***Harry Boy*** · 09-29-2009, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Mrs.PatsFanInVa

Try again. The law of averages says that if there's basis to your allegations you'll have to get it right sometime.

Deep in your heart you know, I'm always right..............

Mrs.PatsFanInVa · 09-29-2009, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by PressCoverage

Agreed fully.

I was only acknowledging his unwillingness to Google those words. Google is quite evil.

The world's quite evil. Google is but a small part of it. I spent most of my childhood being scared - I refuse to fall back into old patterns. If my name ends up on a list, it ends up on a list. I'm doing nothing wrong by googling or binging anything.

If I get questioned I'll tell em Foggy and Harry made me do it.

Besides, I think "they" (whoever "they" are) have bigger and better fish to fry than a couple of cranky, curious and cantankerous posters on a sports board.

***Harry Boy*** · 09-29-2009, 02:06 PM

Thre was far more HATE in this country for GW Bush then there ever will be for Prince Obama.

Jon Stewart made a living out of "Hating" him, it is said that "you couldn't work for NBC unless you Hated Bush"

Most of the reasons for all of the Left Wing Democrat Hate came from the fact that the Democrats considered GW Bush a babbling Moron but they didn't know how to deal with the reality that a Babbling Moron beat them (TWICE)

***PressCoverage*** · 09-29-2009, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot_in_NY

Do you even follow these threads, or do you just spray venom and hope it hits something?

Don't ask so surprised, like Obama is the only one that's been the target of hate. It only makes you look dumber. Expect more of it as this country goes further and further into the dump of political turmoil.

You know you just displayed profound hypocrisy, don't you? I believe she just got done saying it happened to Boy King also.

I think you know the underlying reason why the threats against Obama have increased exponentially. You're unwilling to say so.

The reasons manifest in the insane posts of some of your constituents right in this forum. Ramping up the "red terror" theories, the Joker photos, or just the subtle racist themes day after day after day.

There was no "black commie" concerns regarding Boy George.

As for the next president, well, I hope you're still around to take that bet. If he's a white guy from Texas who "protects private interest", I seriously doubt he'll face a new 400:1 increased ratio.

***KontradictioN*** · 09-29-2009, 02:36 PM

It's a disgusting poll and it's morally wrong, but it's also freedom of speech. Each and every one of us are protected by it and Facebook is a website that doesn't hinder that American right. Should they have made the poll? No. Do they have a right to make it? Absolutely. I'd say the same thing if it were a poll on Bush. Shutting them up and/or censoring the people that created a poll would be a violation of the First Ammendment.

***PressCoverage*** · 09-29-2009, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by KontradictioN

It's a disgusting poll and it's morally wrong, but it's also freedom of speech. Each and every one of us are protected by it and Facebook is a website that doesn't hinder that American right. Should they have made the poll? No. Do they have a right to make it? Absolutely. I'd say the same thing if it were a poll on Bush. Shutting them up and/or censoring the people that created a poll would be a violation of the First Ammendment.

Hate that I have to agree with you.

It's a shame you won't offer the same sentiment each time our resident faux clergyman clamors for some kind of repressive censorship.